The cost to repair cars is almost always much higher than necessary as a result of many layers of poor design choices. Fiat incentives cause car companies to make non-standard components (even between their own models) so that they can make money being the exclusive seller of certain parts. Then when they decide that producing those parts is no longer profitable the cars become very difficult to repair & sometimes more valuable in pieces than they are whole. The problem seems to have gotten significantly worse in the last 10 or 20 years.